Video

I recently finished a song and the video for my up and coming album which I hope to release by the end of 2009. Check it out!

Gothic Quarters from mark nazemi on Vimeo.

In the next couple of months, I will be working on a new project called Tesla’s Insomnia.
Nikola Tesla was one of the planet’s foremost inventors, who had an obsessive fascination with natural resonance.  Tesla explored and discovered the key to unlock the very secrets of nature’s electric dynamo – the planet earth’s rhythms.   He is known to have created a mechanism, which captured the electro-magnetic fields and pulsations of the earth.

It is well documented that Tesla suffered from chronic insomnia, sometimes sleeping less that 3 hours a day.   He is known to have run electrical voltage through his body, both for display at lectures and for helping him to sleep.

The proposed work Tesla’s Insomnia is a portrayal of an imagined insomniac-dream state conceived by two interdisciplinary artists from the non-profit collective POPULATION OF NOISE in Vancouver, CANADA.

TELSA’s INSOMNIA is a trans-disciplinary sound and visual interactive performance that portrays an abstraction of the theory of electro-magnetism, sound and visuals, though first recognized by Tesla in the 1890s is still relevant in the current digital revolution.  The artists believe that there will be continued exploration, invention and discovery in this area to further the art – science connection.

In response to Tesla’s fascination with the natural resonance of the rhythms of the planet EARTH, Tesla’s Insomnia consists of harvested electro-magnetic sounds captured within the urban landscape, and combines them with various visual images.  The methodology of the visuals specifically explores light, energy, motion, time and matter to capture an instant moment in time that bends light and material reality to reveal the center of time and space, the in-between place, the crossing over point, the intersection of here and there.

The artists combine a sound/visual concept to depicting what the sounds could appear like if visible.  Layering, collage, assemblage, audio-visual real-time mixing, sound-scape and live performance are incorporated to present Tesla’s Insomnia.

Zeros and Ones from mark nazemi on Vimeo.

Phaistos Disk was another song that I had released back in 2008 under my artist name Khashara. The track can be purchased from iTunes. This video is a VJ performance I did of the song at VIVO in the fall of 2007 for an event organized by Population of Noise.

Phaistos Disk from mark nazemi on Vimeo.

Fuenta Magna was a song I released back in 2008. You can purchase the song from iTunes and it is listed under my artist name Khashara. This was a live VJ performance I did in the fall of 2007 at VIVO for an event organized by Population of Noise.

Fuenta Magna from mark nazemi on Vimeo.

The Grid was a live VJ performance that I did at Simon Fraser University in December of 2008. The idea is based on surveillance and I shot original video and combined it with archival footage. All the post production editing was done using After Effects however, a series of the video effects were triggered during the performance. The soundtrack was produced by me as well.

The Grid from mark nazemi on Vimeo.